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public inquiry

As announced on this blog post, we met, thanks to Lord Ahmed, in the House of Lords on Tuesday, March 9th to have an audience with our Chairman Austin Mitchell MP.

The clear outcome was Austin’s recommendation: stage your own public inquiry! That is an empowering and challenging suggestion: Grand Juries were very effective and recognized in the Magna Carta in 1215. But they were dispensed with in 1933 in the UK, when the poor were particularly hard up.

Here are a 4-page and a 2-page article on Grand Juries that serve as a collaborative working document. You are invited to provide your feedback!

A recent story in Private Eye about John McFall MP, Chairman of the Treasury Select Committee, entertaining the British Bankers Association in the House of Commons, makes clear that we will NEVER be heard by the Treasury Select Committee. We were advised by a human rights lawyer to “go for Parliamentary scrutiny” via that Committee…